Chucho Valdés @ Chicago Symphony – La Creación w Yoruban band
October 18 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Chucho Valdés La Creación and his Yoruban Orchestra
John Beasley & Hilario Duran: Co-arrangers/Conductors/MD
Legendary Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés presents La Creación (The Creation), for big band, Afro-Cuban percussion and vocals. The four-movement suite explores the story of creation according to the Afro-Cuban Santería religion and includes elements of African music, the blues and what Valdés describes as “an atmosphere in the style of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew.
Chucho Valdes Creation’ at the Palau de la Música, Barcelona
Portentous, spiritual, at times thick and finally irresistible put the Palau on its feet with an irresistible encore by Irakere, the question remained as to whether ‘Creation’ is, indeed, his greatest work. The most ambitious, for sure. – Canadian News
Yoruban:
Erick Barberia, song, tambour batá
Román Diáz, tambour batá
Diosvany Valladares, tambour batá
Dafnis Prieto, drum
Yeni Valdés, vocals
Keyboards: John Beasley, Hilariao Dura
Trumpets: Etienne Charles, Brian Lynch, Marcus Strickland, Carlos Aberhoff
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvc-T8adHMU
US and European Tour
September
02 Detroit Jazz Festival
21 Hollywood Bowl with MONK’estra
22 Paramount Theatre Oakland with MONK’estra
23 Monterey Jazz Festival with MONK’estra
October
07+08 Rose Theatre, Lincoln Center, NY
11 New London, CT
13 Toronto, Canada
14 Berklee Performance Arts, Boston
15 Fairfield, CT
16 Kennedy Center, Washington DC
18 Chicago Symphony
November
18 London
22 Madrid
24 Hamburg
25 Berlin
26 Toulouse, France